skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am not a web expert but these all sound like things that can uniquely identify a particular browser version only? That doesn't seem like such a big issue - if all that can be determined is that I'm using the latest stable Chrome/Firefox, that doesn't sound so bad. Does it matter that the TOR Browser is identifiable if everyone is using the same version? I thought their goal is to make every user of their browser look the same? Where does the 98.3% accuracy come from?
Does Chrome on Android support extensions? Chrome on iOS? The only reason I use bookmark sync is to keep them synced to my phone.
Indeed.

I flew to Norway from Stockholm before 2015, and I was very surprised to just pass directly to the gate (and same on the way back).
Yet a very large number of companies do. Open Facebook in an incognito window - it'll give you a dialog with "Accept FB cookies"; options are, "Accept all" or "Manage" (already in violation of GDPR since rejecting is not as easy as accepting!). Click manage, and you get presented with a single button, "I Accept"; sure, there's one checkbox that you can leave unchecked, but it's really unclear from that wall of text what exactly you are "Accepting" and what you're not.

If Grinder was fined 10% of revenue - why exactly aren't they fining Facebook 2.2 billion? It'd be much more impactful, and hopefully help put an end to those practices.
Also, if getting listed as news is enough to get money, then that's not necessarily an incentive that encourages investigative journalism. We've already seen that making up lies and calling it news is cheaper than thorough investigative journalism. If governments want to protect investigative journalism, they should probably just subsidise it directly, instead of forcing other parties to subsidise various news articles.
The UK had those too while being a member.
Really great set of resources! Bookmarked! Also a great companion to rewatch the series!

BTW, does anynone know where I could buy the complete series on bluray or dvd?

I loved watching the show on TV at its time, but cannot find all the seasons to buy and rewatch.
Firearms are highly regulated where I am from which makes the first and last a little more difficult than they potentially could be.

In a collapse they won't be, and those willing to seize them, will be at a great advantage, police dept. military bases, even countries whose population don't have access to an abundance of guns doesn't mean there isn't an abundance in the country.

In almost any scenario where government collapse can occur, people will become the largest threat to survival.

The problem with security against other humans in the long term, is that we are damn clever, and determined. Even with an overwhelming firepower, if you are in a fixed location, people will find a way.

As for Hunting, it can be done without firearms, Crossbows and Traps can be highly effective, and simply constructed. What you have to think about is how much and what sort of wildlife their is around you, and how rapidly they will be depleted by others.

As they say, Hell is other people, best bet since the time of the plague, you want to survive go where others aren't.
I have trouble understanding what you're trying to say. You traveled 50 years into the future?
I had this happen once, and I finally gave up and removed the app from review.

I re-built it with a newer version of Xcode, bumped the version the number, resubmitted. It was approved the next day.
I wanted to write something of substance, but...
Lol. Just, lol.
To Update or Not to Update?
> I wonder what all the EU citizens think who are not getting vaccinated because the EU thought it would play hard ball

What do you mean? Current vaccination plan is 80% of population by summer, isn't it?
Not only the Telegraph.
Well, to make it more obvious - if users had the choice of paying with money or paying with their future voting rights, would that be "forcing users into signing their rights away?". Surely, not "forcing" since it's their choice - but, I hope we agree that it's a choice that should NOT be presented to them, at all.

You may or may not agree on whether the right to privacy should be on the same level as the right to vote, but other than that, it's really the same principle.
It's online already (still labelled "beta" but works with interruptions of only a few minutes per day) in certain latitudes (as far south as Rome 41.8° N-52.1° N as far north as The Hague), check the starlink subreddit for reports.
Eh, I already have enough messaging apps myself (4 right now), so adding more at this point is a hurdle I'd like to avoid. I can imagine others having similar feelings.
The only feeling that’s triggered in me is being sorry for normal UK folks.

And, I think we will really know after a couple of years if this was a “mistake”. Being in the EU feels often like a “mistake”, too. I am not thinking my country should leave, but I’d love to see a major reform making the EU much lighter, less bureaucratic and focused on core topics instead of being this gigantic monster that’s deciding which popups I need to see.
It's not an oversight (there has been much discussion about this limitation on the forums), more a consequence of some of the design decisions of how mods work: factorio runs a lockstep simulation model, so all the clients need to operate deterministically and consistently across for all players. This includes the mods, so the modding API is deliberately restricted to only information which is in common between all players. Due to internationalisation, the names and descriptions can be different between players, and this could easily introduce desyncs between players.

Now, there's a bunch of possible solutions to this problem (I think the best approach is to have the concept of a UI mod which can affect the interface but not the game world. As an added benefit you could allow users to have different sets of UI mods installed and not depend on the server using it), but the engineering effort involved is not so simple as just adding another part to the API (and factorio developers are generally going to try to do something well if they do it).
Right after we get a prepubescent transgender kid to approve the incoming secretary of education..

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2020/02/04/warrens...
Once again proof that what we need is the opposite approach;
companies need to actively get explicit permission not just from
the end user, but also from authorities to collect and share
data, and the full report should be publicly accessible. Also I
wouldn't mind a general ban on using personal data for marketing
purposes, I don't know a scenario where this would be necessary
and beneficial for the user.

Right now companies just keep doing what they always did and
hope for the best. As long as they're convinced they can just
try not to get too much attention this data sharing problem will
persist with barely a dent.
I thought that the card bonus programs on US credit cards were subsidized not by the transaction fees, but by the monthly interest payments. So actually payed by the non-responsible credit card users.
How much a single share costs really isn't interesting or important.
I'm sad that M4 is getting a bad reputation; probably it is more due to lack of knowledge than the actual tool, because the language is really simple. As usual, many devs would copy/paste m4 macros without understanding what is going on. Also, heavy use by Sendmail or SELinux didn't add to reputation either (again, not due M4 itself).

But I find M4 a true gem "no one heard of" - a portable macro processor you can use with basically anything involved with the plain text. Especially it is useful where you have tons of boilerplate code to type (Java, Ansible, Go, js/html/css to name a few).
I think those are both referring to the fact that without some very sophisticated manufacturing processes and equipment, it's not possible to build an 8086 to begin with. Once we're at a point of societal collapse, we would, presumably, need to begin re-climbing the tech tree at a lower level and work ourselves up to 8086s again. So, we would need to start with computers we could actually build in order to get there.
Benchmarking Signal Acquisition on the RPi
Yup, the UK right now is blaming everyone but themselves (or at least the papers are). There was fury about Belgian authorities taking away sandwiches etc from UK lorry drivers. I also read that someone in the UK got really annoyed that they had to queue up in the 'Outside EU' line....
Twitter acquires Revue
> plus an ability to learn as it goes that our AI can't hold a candle to.

4.5B years of evolution vs silicon monkeys pretending to be gods
> I, too, will happily pay for my data being not used and seeing no ads.

These are two different things, sharing data and displaying ads. The ad industry has forgotten that you can advertise without collecting hoardes of personal data, and they've convinced the rest of us that it can't be done.

The point here is that sharing data in the way Grindr is sharing it with third parties is not core to its business. That is, no one signs up for Grindr because of that functionality. Folks sign up to Grindr to find and message others. That functionality does not require the type of data sharing being reviewed in this case, and that sharing of data is distinct from merely displaying advertising.
Exactly this. It is people rationalizing their gambling, sprinkling in an anecdote here and there about someone paying off their student loans thanks to /r/wsb.
I guess you belong to the small intersection of people who care about open source but not privacy.
Forget winning, can Amazon survive in India?
I have even seen some generally tech savy users that still use it, it has primarily been in some youtube programming tutorials on windows (ignorance is a bliss), it is disappointing nevertheless.
It is Email.
WebRTC Streaming Use Case – Leap Gaming Virtual Game Producer
Open-Source Twitter Text Editor for iOS
Really, you need twitter to submit suggestions of topics?
What a joke. You’re willing to go broke so they lose 2% of their capital? Good job.
Or another another referendum in Scotland.
Microsoft's description of the project [1]:

> Open Web Docs, a new collective which is dedicated to sustainably supporting high-quality, browser-agnostic, community-driven web developer documentation. Open Web Docs employs full-time writing staff to support the development and maintenance of web developer documentation, independent of any one vendor or organization.

[1] https://blogs.windows.com/msedgedev/2021/01/25/welcome-open-...
I'm really not a fan of the decision to overhaul Vim script. It seems this is driven from a desire for Vim script to be faster [1]. I've not needed Vim script to be "faster" but I don't use very complex plugins. That said a lot of Vim script is written in sub-optimally. Using a more functional approach is faster (though still not "fast"), e.g.

$ cat loop.vim
let sum = 0
for i in range(1, 2999999)
let sum += i
endfor
quit

$ cat fold.vim
call eval(join(range(1, 2999999), '+'))
quit

$ time vim -u NONE -S loop.vim
vim -u NONE -S loop.vim 7.08s user 0.09s system 99% cpu 7.198 total

$ time vim -u NONE -S fold.vim
vim -u NONE -S fold.vim 2.03s user 0.13s system 99% cpu 2.166 total

I think its cryptic reputation comes form the use of normal mode commands and regex within scripts. There certainly are warts, like the user's 'ignorecase' setting permeating to many places in the runtime. Which I'd love to see fixed and whilst may also represent a breaking change for some scripts would be far more easily adoptable.

[1] https://github.com/brammool/vim9/blob/master/README.md
The current narrative in the uk media is that the EU have failed to plan the Covid Vaccines effectively as they insisted doing it as a single block, and that the UK has done much better as we were no longer tied to them and could move much quicker.

If there is any truth to that it's a big vindication of Brexit and I say that as a remain voter.
Autotools are _mostly_ fine from user's perspective (run configure, make, done) and horrible from devs perspective.
I don't. I write the same way everywhere. Email, SMS, IRC, Slack, WhatsApp, Signal, Twitter, documentation, etc.

The writing is not always 'essay' grade, though.
I'm hard-pressed to see seniority being the main attribute for this rather than personality type, unless people wish to go into semantic discussions that having a more introspective and critical outlook is part of being a senior (in which case, we could easily dismiss the majority of seniors as being expert juniors).
Also: NVIDIA RTX Voice

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/guides/nvidia-rtx-voice...
And sell them at the right time, before they expire usually, usually people don’t have enough to actually go through with the contract if it’s in the money
Since ./configure just probes the compiler it could be paralellized. Make has concurrency (-j4) why doesn't ./configure have the same feature
Show HN: PastePal 2 universal pasteboard manager for Mac, iPhone and iPad
Everyone (in the EU/EEA) has the right to not to have their data processed if there’s no applicable basis. So if Grindr requires money to keep their service active, then everyone should pay the same fee (leaving aside service levels) and not be forced to give up their rights. Alternatively, Grindr could come up with a business model that allows them to offer their service for free without processing their user’s un-needed personal data; an obvious first idea would be advertising targeted at gay men, but not at any one specific user.
Sounds like something the UK can quickly solve by passing their own matching legislation if they wish.
I can't really trust someone offering web services if they use a 1MB image to display a background gradient instead of CSS: https://gowebhooks.github.io/assets/img/landing_bg.png
Target to Give $500 Bonuses to Frontline Team Members
Lessons I've Learned from Self-Teaching
In order to feel Schadenfreude, you'd need to be happy that the UK is suffering in some areas from no longer being an EU member.

The loss of the UK is nothing but a sad occasion, because everyone in the UK and the EU is weakened as a result.
> It's an illogical thing to do that takes a lot of effort.

It's completely logical. You get people to click on trailer videos and they see this instead. They want to expose people to these and that's a way to do it. Have you missed the last decade of 4chan racist trolling or something? They do stuff like this all the time.
I'm familiar with many non-standard measurements, but neither Google nor my dictionary is able to tell me what's a "skipful".

Anyone would like to give me the definition in SI?
Gated linear units to improve transformers
> I understand programming quite well

Software programming or biological programming ?

These things have the same names but they're not really comparable
So what’s next?
Bloodhound supersonic car project up for sale
Thanks, that's a very good point!
Twitter Acquires Revue, a Newsletter Company
The UK could have chosen to take part in the EU schemes any time last year had it wanted to.

Equally, any EU member state could have chosen to go their own way. The EU didn't force them to collectively bargain to (successfully) get better value deals.

Maybe the EU will do a worse job distributing, but it's too early to say.
It is unlikely it proves that. Mastercard doesn't have a monopoly on transactions (or if it does, that is the problem). If the profits are extreme other payment processors will step in.

It is more likely there are significant regulatory or other burdens taking UK orders for EU goods.
No mention of improved latency or latency figures at all. Until it's in the single digit range, Bluetooth audio will remain a gimmick, unusable in certain cases.

Right now, we're 2 orders of magnitude away from that.
I wonder how Amex is able to make money in Europe? They still have a quite generous rewards program (not as generous as the US, but not bad) and I thought they always charged high tx fees (which is also why not all merchants chose to accept it). But the argument being that they also have the high earners = high spenders in their network, and merchants can attract more of those customers by accepting Amex. If the cap was at 0.3%, how can they be any different than MasterCard/Visa cards, which usually don't have reward programs here?
I am already broke. The money I invested isn't enough to change my life, but the returns are. I can fast for a week or two, I can walk to school instead of taking the metro. I am poor af and they can't take that away from me.

But you know, melvin capital is already 30% of their equity down in January.

They have everything to lose. I have nothing.
> I wonder why this is interesting to people on HN.

Visa and Mastercard's defacto monopoly is a huge issue for many startups, and therefore this is directly relevant.

I think a head of steam is beginning to build that V/MC is a situation that cannot be allowed to continue as is.
Unless the apocalypse is due to a solar flare similar to the Carrington event, which could destroy a lot of computers.
Assessing Mandatory Lockdowns and Business Closure Effects on Spread of Covid-19
How often does someone compile and run new software on those machines? And also, let's be honest, autotools and windows have never worked well together.
Anyone from the UK: What are you doing to mitigate with personal spending?

Now having to pay import duty/VAT on EU imports plus a ~£10 handling fee for delivery company handling.

It seems like the cost of living is increasing.
Is it possible to legislate on the fees a company in another country charges citizens of that country for a service provided in that country?
This appears to be a general problem in politics (both corporate and governmental). The person in charge is surrounded by experts (in a specific subject) but he doesn't listen to them.

Yes, sometimes those experts are wrong or their ideas are not compatible with the general direction of the company and that's where you really want a leader's judgement but the solution to this problem isn't to ignore the expert, it's to find a compromise, verify information by asking multiple experts with differing opinions, make the experts understand the goals of the company.

In theory being a manager is the easiest job in the world. You delegate all your competence away to people who are better than you at the skill you are delegating. So the only challenge is to utilize the value of that competence properly.
I am always amazed to hear this argument about government control, you do realise that having a civilised society relies on 'limitation on the usual functioning of human beings' such as beating up the guy you don't like, urinating wherever you please, etc. Presumanbly you are happy to limit those natural human instincts.

But somehow spreading deadly disease is you essential liberty
> The people who stay behind aren't people you want to work with, if you can help it.

From my experience, the only place the last statement hasn't been true is Montreal.

There are a lot of engineers over there that could move but won't ever. That's partly why everyone is setting AI shops over there.
But isn't Peloton fairly unique? Like Crossfit, it somehow has gained a huge following that is not directly related to the actual product, it's much more about marketing nous.

That is much harder to reproduce than simply building a solid physical product.
Endmyopia is real. It works, and I’m not a shill. I went from severe myopia to 20/20 vision; although you need to put the effort in (took me 2 years to get to 20/20, but improvements have been steady).

I genuinely believe that optometrists are either evil, or horribly misguided with hubris.
TV, music, movies, theater, and books are supposed to make you feel something when consuming them. What's not to understand?
Physically reshaping the eye, isn't as crazy as it sounds.

Your eye shape/length isn't set, it can both shorten and lengthen in response to stimulus.

I am by no means claiming this device works, just that changing the shape of the eye is at least theoretically possible without surgery.

"
Maturity and Homeostasis of Refractive State
Although emmetropization is generally thought of as occurring during early development, homeostatic growth mechanisms need to be at least as precise during maturity if size is to be tightly maintained. Does vision guide eye growth only during a narrow period in development? In tree shrews, there is clear evidence of a period of maximum sensitivity to form deprivation (Siegwart and Norton, 1998). In chicks, however, it appears that susceptibility declines steadily from the earliest period, perhaps being related to the growth rate, with older animals showing consistent but smaller responses to form deprivation (Wallman et al., 1987), even up to 1 year of age (Papastergiou et al., 1998). Adolescent marmosets and rhesus macaques also show decreased, but still significant, form-deprivation myopia Smith et al. 1999, Troilo et al. 2000b. In humans as well, there is evidence of changes in ocular dimensions in young adults associated with the progression of myopia, perhaps related to visual tasks (McBrien and Adams, 1997). Thus, the young adult eye is still subject to visually guided growth."

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S089662730...
Reversible dynamics with closed time-like curves and freedom of choice (2020)
This Brexit 'deal' just gets worse and worse by the day.

Weren't they supposed to have turned all existing EU law into UK law anyway as a starting point? Maybe phone operators will be next on this train.

I also don't understand how this 'free trade' deal seems to still be costing businesses so much money in customs fees? Isn't the point of a free trade deal that you don't pay customs?

At least Boris Johnson got the Coronavirus pandemic right, oh wait...
List of Spacecraft in the Culture Series
Other countries prove that as well. You can compare 0.3% to the rates charged in the US and elsewhere.

On the other hand, there are many cash back bonuses.
People just can't get their heads wrapped around the efficiency of industrialization.

Repairing stuff is an expert dedicating 30 minutes or more (often more) to your gadget. (sometimes that expert might be you yourself - it still remains true).

In the same time, factory drones can produce hundreds of the same gadget.

Naturally, the time of the expert is much more expensive than simply buying a new gadget.

This "right to repair" is romanticized nonsense, like the idea of everybody growing their own food.

Not that I don't like the idea of being able to repair my own things. I even think one should try occasionally, just so that one doesn't become totally stupid.

But to claim it is somehow a common good and betterment of society is nonsense. The opposite is true. Devices will now become more expensive for everybody, because companies have to jump through hoops to make them repairable, even though hardly anybody will actually repair them.

If you want to tinker, or grow your own food, get a Raspberry Pi or a little tomato plant for your balcony

Also, if you are worried about the environment, perhaps recycling laws make more sense, or more specifically, producers being responsible for the proper disposal of their devices. Would have to consider the upsides and downsides, though.
Why would they want to do that? The company receiving the money (in the EU) is the one that receives less money. The UK bank receives a higher interchange.
Murder map of medieval London (2019)
That's a very likely explanation.

I would be curious to see the number of students with immigrants parents; maybe they tried to go to the US but couldn't due to stricter policies. Now the kid can.
Thank you, I have not dug into it in detail.
If Mastercard is doing it, why wouldn't Visa?

Also, I think it's important to remember but most of us don't go and select Mastercard or Visa, most of us don't care. We just use what the banks use. I suspect changing from Mastercard to Visa would be extremely expensive and it's a lot easier and more profitable to just pass along that to the customer.